The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1887-03-16
In4El.l TOPICS For FNEMERS.
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/; After the winters sleep, typical o:
death. t;!e resurrection Of springis about
to begin. The sun, rising higher and
Aigher IN t!ac heavens, is pouring dow1
lis r2ys mere directly upon the earth.
warming is surface. and waking plants
IRON ,l:qiir Eg!;n:eG sleep. Man, no less
t:!&n TIE inanimata objects around him,
feels TIE q;;:c?sening impulse anG is I'M
| patiens 10 pa seeds in the ground and dc
his par. u rociothins the earth with
verdur@. Happy are they who can place
Themselves in complete harmony with
nature, VINO never waste their strength
IN unequal contest with her ineyorable
! LAWS. One of the Leading objects of the
Guitivator is to establish and preserve
this harmony between its readers and the
material world in which they live, to en-
ole them to see how cold and heat, rain
and sa0siiine, earth and air, when right
! y understood, may all be conducive to
mans welfare; how cooperation with
the forces of nature may tighten his
labors and increase their productiveness,
whilst nntagorism with them not only
increases his iabors, but renders them
unprc2uc5ivc and fruitless.
Nov &h2 three leading features of
nature which confront the farmer this
month are a low temperature, compact
Ing rains and high winds. Whatever he
plants or prepares 10 plant. he must have
i constant eye to these three things.
Firs:, as TO cold. Seeds need heat to
make them germinate. Where viii they
find the most of il, near the surface or
at greater depth? If cold body is
placed before fire, which becomes warm
sooner, its outer surface or its interior?
Has not the heat to travel through its
surface before it can reach its interior?
Is It not perfectly clear then that the
surface is the FIRST to become heated?
Nov at the end Of winter, the earth IS to
be regarded as q Geld body. Is long as
the nights exceeded the days in length,
the earth was losing more heat than it
received; in other words, growing colder.
As the sun comes northward and the
days become longer, the sun not only
throws more heat upon the earth, but
projects the heat more perpendicularly
nDon It's surface, SO that less Of the heat
giances of, or is reflected from its sur
lace, and more of it is absorbed or goes
to warm il. The earth, then, II spring,
IN It's relation 10 the sun, is like cold
body held before / fire It's surface first
becomes warmed and afterwards She heat
Denetrates deeper and deeper. What IS
the obvious inference to be drawn from
this? That in carly paintings, seeds
should not be buried deep in tie soil.
On the contrary, that they should be
placed Just as near the surface rs the re-
Quisite moisture can he secured.
again, as il is desirable that seed come
no promptly when planted, less COM
pacing raius and baking winds crust the
earth over them and hold them down,
one should always bear in mind the tenn
D4catures at which different seeds will
{ :. lirate. ! table OF the loves: average
temperatures at which some OF our COM
mon cultivated plants will germinate is
presented. These figures have been
learned from actual experiments. 1t is
to be regretted that the temperature OF
termination of others OF our ordinary
crop plants, like cotton, peas, etc., can
not be given: